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I think you told me before when I was researching a Pill War Memorial listing on behalf of Pill History Society that the Axbridge records for he 1930s were destroyed by fire ?

The 100th centennary of WW1 ending led me to see if I could more progress on my great Uncle William Buck. All we have is a note written by Mum, attached to his Devonshire Regiment Cap badge and war medals that after the war "he was unable to live a normal life" Could someone with say "shell shock" find themselves in the Axbridge Infirmary ?

Thank you for going to the trouble to look all that information up for me, much appreciated. As you may guess, I already have researched the family pretty thoroughly and am just trying to fill in the last bits of data that might be freely available.

It is much appreciated also if you can get the date from the actual register as then I will know it is correct. Thr trouble with taking info from Ancestry trees is the accuracy of it as I know so much of the information there is rubbish even down to the death of my own mother. I have been familiar with the Puddy tree in the past, so maybe I will contact the owner again and ask the question.

When you asked this before there were some suggestions made - see here for older information but you didn't say then whether you had a copy of the birth certificate which might give the address of the place of birth. I think it unlikely that Yatton Hall or Sand Park near Taunton would have been the hospital in question as they were not designated as General Hospitals.

The Maternity homes mentioned in the previous correspondence all seem possibilities. Ashcombe House Maternity Hospital in Weston which I believe opened as a Maternity Hospital in 1946 is a little late, but I'm not sure whether the building which had been used as a Red Cross Hospital during WW1 was still in use as a hospital in 1942. Does anyone know what was happening at Ashcombe House before 1946?

Hi Elizabeth
I was unable to find the death date for Harriet but I have put a request on a site I belong to asking if anyone is planning to go to Somerset record office & if so will they do a look up of Harriet's burial for me.

I started the look up by going to free bmd to get all the details which you would already have.

then just for a laugh looked at Ancestry members trees & surprisingly one on there seems very well researched - the Puddy Tree South & East Brent/Brent Knoll but I did a bit of checking up on it.

I hope that some of this may be of help & if I were you Id have a look at th public members tree I refer'd you to as that may help. I also hope that Im able to send you the burial date for Harriet if I get a reply to the request I made for a look up.

This relates to another post from May 2016 but may be linked. Around 1942 my mother who would have been 15 or 16 entered a rescue home at Weston-Super-Mare and was then transferred to a P.A.C. hospital for her confinement. I have hit a brick wall on this but could Yatton Hall/Sandhill Park be where she had been.